TELEGRAM TO THE TAMBOV GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

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7. XII. 1918

GuberniaExecutive CommitteeTambovCopy to Uyezd Executive CommitteeBorisoglebsk

Receiveda complaint from Ivan Bogdanov about the
arrest for sabotage of his 17-year-old son, Vladimir, who
is suffering from bronchitis. Re-examine the case, check
as to the illness, inexperience, youth of the arrested
person, and particularly investigate whether the real saboteurs
were not the 30 officials of the Commissariat for
Agriculture who had refused to do the work and shifted it on to
Bogdanov. Telegraph the result of the
check.[1]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Leninwrote this telegram following a complaint received from
I. V. Bogdanov, a member of the staff of the Unemployment
Insurance Office in Borisoglebsk, concerning the arrest of his son
who, on the grounds of his inexperience and poor health, refused
to take part in the work of the Evacuation Commission to which
he was assigned by the Commissariat for Agriculture.